Nord bei Nordwest

- Season 1

(2015)

Retired city cop Hauke Jacobs starts a new career as veterinarian in Ostsee small port town Schwanitz, where he bough a home boat. The only local vet dies from a suicidal car-dive in the canal before Hauke's eyes at arrival, despite local 'chief' cop Lona Vogt after him. So unconventional, in-living practice assistant Jule Christiansen is hired as Hauke takes over the patients. Beach-strolling, Jacob discovers a stranded fishing boat, aboard of which are parrot Käpt'n Hook and two corpses, the first in the (Lübeck) area in decades. Drowning in inexperience, Vogt ...

Veterinarian and ex-Hamburg cop Hauke Jacobs refuses to believe his practice town Schwanitz's legend that as every seven year, medieval raider Viking captain Sven rises from his sea grave to kill two people, but on Baltic peninsula Priwall every one shivers anyway. Local Selchow is found in bed, drowned, so constable Lona Vogt and Hauke's assistant Jule Christiansen superstitiously blame wild Sen, whom fisherman drowned about 10 years ago. While Jacobs and Vogt search for the real, modern killer, his past as key witness in a mob trial requiring witness protection ...

Estonia.

The transport.

Hauke Jacobs's vet practice wins the municipal social projects prize for assistant Jule Christiansen's neglected animals 'mercy garden', but she feels neglected by Hauke, who ignores her romantic interest and eagerly invites to his home boat ex Sandy de Man, who cook for the pair and hopes to lure him away. Her arrival 'coincides' with the crimes of two fake beat cops, actually drug trade thugs from Hamburg, who terrorize locals, including a gambling-debts-bound farmer accomplice. Hauke and constable Lona Voigt tie their trails together.

Vet and former police detective Hauke Jacobs 'helps' Schwanitz constable investigate the possibly accidental fatal shooting at the outskirts of town of generally disliked local huntsman Benedikt from a reputed family. Daughter Sara Benedikt (17) hides the identity of her baby's father, even to her protective big brother and now guardian Lukas Benedikt (19), actually Kai Jensen, son of family arch-rival Lars. Surveyor Achim Möller, the Benedikts' friend since a half year, actually secretly found out heir worthless land was about to yield a fortune. False presumptions ...

Gold.

Mrs. Irmler.

Police officer Lona Vogt falls into a trap and is seriously injured in an explosion. Hauke Jacobs and assistant Jule try to find the culprit.

A man is found with his throat severed. Apparently there is a professional killer in Schwanitz.

A serial killer is targeting red-haired women. This has fatal consequences for Lona. All of Schwanitz is shocked. Jule tries to lure the perpetrator on her own.

In "The attack", the Prime Minister Maria Wengler makes a detour to Schwanitz to visit the house where she was born. Sounds harmless - but investigative journalist Jan Bank is shot dead while researching on site. The LKA man Frank Schmiedel, bodyguard for the Prime Minister, found the weapon at Hauke Jacobs of all places. Only with the help of his veterinary assistant Jule Christiansen and his new colleague could Jacobs prove his innocence. There are increasing indications that Jan Bank was on the trail of a plot whose goal could be an assassination attempt on the top...

Hauke Jacobs new partner Hannah Wagner gets a visit from her old life: the young Maik Lisek, who got involved with the wrong people in Kiel, urges her to give him money. Before Hannah can find out who is in debt to him, the boy secretly runs away with her service weapon and uses it to raid Mehmet Ösker's gas station. During the chase there is a serious accident that Hauke only survives because Hannah saves him. However, he has memory lapses. Meanwhile, Jule has her hands full at Frederike Barrow's farm. A rare epidemic has broken out there. Frederike Barrow blames her...

At a traffic control, Hannah Wagner and Hauke Jacobs find a cut finger in a suitcase. The driver, in whose car the suitcase was, claims not to have known anything. He pulls out a lawyer's business card. He's there immediately, talks alone to his client - and shoots him. He was evidently a cleaner, a criminal service provider who would remove all traces if the worst came to the worst. At the same time, Ansgar Brandel, the pastor in Schwanitz, is collecting money for a young widow in need. When he told the gang boss Mateo Talamantes about it while visiting prison as a ...

The Christmas season is not exactly contemplative for the Schwanitzer. When the ferry stops operating and the dike breaks in the neighboring village, the place is cut off from the outside world. Then a stranger shoots Santa Claus and the party is in complete danger. Leisure Santa Claus Martin has stood in for his buddy - was the fatal shot aimed at him? Does the man have to be protected? Or did he know they wanted to kill him - and killed two birds with one stone? In the winter hunt for the murderer, Hauke Jacobs, Hannah Wagner and veterinary assistant Jule prove to ...

Andreas Brose, better known in Schwanitz as "Andy from next door", is a tree made by one man and gifted with craftsmanship. So he repairs Hauke's broken boat engine and helps Hannah renovate her new house. Andy's mind, heart and instinct are more like a child's. When Andy finds his foster father Cem Brose dead, he is suspected of murder based on a testimony. Hauke and Hannah find out that Andy's adoptive father Cem Brose was once a treasure hunter. Could the murder have anything to do with a stolen diamond? The investigation leads to a second fatality and then Andy ...

Hauke Jacobs is pushed to the extreme as an investigator by colleague Hannah Wagner, while Jule Christiansen is primarily concerned about her ailing father. A chance reunion with the Kiel police officer Jost Striesow leads Hannah to call her ex-colleague Lasse, with whom she once had an affair. It comes to light that Striesow was apparently lubricated by a powerful Kiel drug ring and is now on the run. He is said to have kidnapped a girl to prevent her from testifying in a criminal trial. Hauke and Hannah immediately start looking for the girl. They get support from ...

Not only as a commissioner, but also as a veterinarian and animal rescuer, Hauke Jacobs has to give everything to solve several cases at once. A lead in the murder investigation into the death of informer Frank Schuster leads Hauke and Hannah to Kai Schwarz's local kennel. Meanwhile, Jule has to operate on Herbert Winter's bitch in the Jacobs-Christiansen group practice. The animal had apparently eaten deadly bait. Jule and Winter are looking for clues as to who might have set the bait. Jule has a suspicion. Hauke and Hannah examine the kennel. The main concern there ...

Hauke Jacobs und Hannah Wagner bekommen es diesmal mit echten Schwerverbrechern zu tun. Während ihres Transports gelingt vier Strafgefangenen die Flucht (dargestellt von Roman Knizka, Tino Führer, Konstantin Lindhorst und Vincent Leittersdorf). Ihr Plan: unerkannt in Schwanitz untertauchen und sich dann mit der Abendfähre absetzen. Als sie in ein Haus einbrechen, um sich mit neuer Kleidung auszustatten, kommt es zum Schusswechsel mit dem Bewohner. Dieser stirbt, einer der Flüchtigen wird verletzt. Die Häftlinge nehmen Jule Christiansen, die ärztliche Hilfe leistet, ...

In "Canasta" ist die Kartenspielrunde von Bestatter Töteberg (Stephan A. Tölle) namensgebend. Diese hat vor kurzem ihr viertes Mitglied durch einen mysteriösen Todesfall verloren, als ein weiterer Vorfall das Spielgeschehen erneut torpediert. Kaum haben Hildegard Knutzen (Marion Kracht) und Jutta Weinert (Katja Danowski) mit Töteberg auf ihren verblichenen Mitspieler angestoßen, rast ein Wagen ungebremst in Tötebergs Garten. Der angeschossene Fahrer lebt gerade noch lange genug, um den dreien mitzuteilen, dass sich in seinem Kofferraum eine Menge Geld befindet. Ein ...

In Jule Christiansens Tierarztpraxis taucht eine Frau auf, die sich Jule gegenüber als "Natalja" vorstellt. Hauke ist sich jedoch sicher, dass Natalja längst gestorben ist. Dies bleibt nicht das einzige Geheimnis der rätselhaften Frau, denn auch das BKA und die russische Polizei scheinen sie zu verfolgen. Aber warum? Und was hat es mit dem Sohn auf sich, den Natalja Hauke Jacobs gegenüber bei ihrer Festnahme erwähnt? Ehe er das gemeinsam mit Hannah Wagner herausfinden kann, sind sie schon zwischen die lebensgefährlichen Fronten zweier Geheimdienste geraten.